[H-GEN] Mega documentation and distro server. Was: Idea for journalling filesystems

[Greg Black]

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On 2003-07-03, David Seikel wrote:
>  --- Greg Black <gjb at gbch.net> wrote: 
> > To return to the original question, what's wrong with glimpse?
> 
> This thread has undergone a few mutations, so I'm confused about what the
> original question was.

    It was in the material that you carefully edited out of your
message.  Here it is again:

    On 2003-07-02, Jason Parker-Burlingham wrote:
    > Anthony Towns <aj at azure.humbug.org.au> writes:
    > > On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 01:17:52AM -0400, Jason Parker-Burlingham wrote:
    > >> Hmm.  Right now grep -ri does a credible job.  Actually that raises an
    > >> interesting question for Greg Black---Greg, how do you go about doing
    > >> recursive greps?  If I remember correctly you eschew nonstandard
    > >> options such as (I assume) -r.  I've never found a particularly
    > >> compelling find+grep combination.

    It was, as you see, a question directed to me.  Which is why
I was (a) replying at all; (b) "returning" to it after a little
digression.

    Whether that was the original question posed by the thread,
I have no idea, but I was merely referring to material that was
clear from the context of my message.  I don't write randomly
about stuff that can't be understood just by reading the current
message.

> From my point of view, htdig was already installed and setup by the distro
> as part of the doc server package, while glimpse is not even part of the
> distro.  Probably nothing wrong with glimpse, it might even be better than
> htdig, but htdig was a true no brainer for me B-).

    I've heard of htdig, but have no knowledge about it at all,
so I won't comment further on it; I've written at some length
already about glimpse, so I won't cover that ground again.

    Greg

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